{"id":"AGY-ST-COURTS-009","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Nebraska Supreme Court (Chief Justice; statewide)","state":"NE","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-COURTS","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Justice Michael G. Heavican, Nebraska Supreme Court","authority":"Neb. Const. art. V, § 1; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-2221","instrument":"Administrative Order of the Chief Justice, In re Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19 Disease (filed Nov. 3, 2020)","title":"Statewide administrative order requiring every court holding in-person proceedings to adopt a written transmission-control plan (telephonic or video hearings, distancing, masks, sanitation) and superseding the March 13, April 6 and June 30, 2020 orders","dateIssued":"2020-11-03","effective":"2020-11-03","end":"Until otherwise ordered (rescission date not verified; in force through Sept. 30, 2021 on the face of the order and the absence of any later superseding order located)","startDate":"2020-11-03","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","QUAR","MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["all Nebraska courts and probation offices","attorneys, parties and witnesses"],"clause":"if a court is holding in-person proceedings, the court shall adopt, and implement to the best of the court\u0027s ability, a written plan outlining adequate measures to limit the transmission of COVID-19 to staff, counsel, parties, and other participants, including but not limited to use of telephonic or videoconferencing hearing options as allowed by statute, social distancing or spacing requirements, use of masks, providing hand sanitizer, and sanitizing highly touched surfaces... The March 13, April 6, and June 30, 2020, Administrative Orders are superseded by this Order. This Order shall remain in effect until otherwise ordered by the Nebraska Supreme Court.","enforcement":"General administrative order binding on all courts and probation offices; plans submitted to the Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation","functions":["CT courts and agencies","WF workforce (isolation and quarantine categories excluded from proceedings)","OF office and administration"],"notes":"The document itself bears a Nov. 3, 2020 filing stamp and is dated November 2020. Treated here as the November 2020 order; the May 6, 2020 order was not separately retrieved.","sourceUrl":"https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/Administration/emergency/5.6.20_-_Administrative_Order_Regarding_Novel_Coronavirus_and_COVID-19_Disease.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":171972,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-COURTS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-COURTS-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-COURTS-009","citation":"Chief Justice Michael G. Heavican, Nebraska Supreme Court, Administrative Order of the Chief Justice, In re Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19 Disease (filed Nov. 3, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-009)","stateName":"Nebraska","related":["AGY-ST-COURTS-010"]}